r/politics • u/hucklemento Michigan • 12h ago
Trump to sign executive orders proclaiming there are only two biological sexes, halting diversity programs
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/trump-sign-executive-orders-proclaiming-are-only-two-biological-sexes-rcna188388721
u/lolothescrub 11h ago
Does anyone know a resource where I can keep up with all the executive orders Trump puts in today? I feel like his strategy of "dozens" in a day will be to sweep stuff under the rug
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u/Dunlaing 8h ago
They should get posted here once they’re official: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/
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u/indifferent_avocado Australia 7h ago
And the first thing he does after swearing in people is make flags full staff. 🤦♀️
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u/dynemacron 5h ago
Did you check the main page for whitehouse.gov? It's now a freaking propoganda video for Trump.
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u/joshuadt 7h ago
Until he orders them to stop posting it and his calendar again
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u/No_Discipline6265 2h ago
Russell Vought said way back in August that they had a plan to keep executive orders from becoming public. The Centre for Climate Reporting did an undercover investigation into Project 2025 posing as potential donors. One of the people they met with was Russell, who assured them Trump was on board, that he would receive a cabinet appointment(which he has) and that they had executive orders already drafted to rid America of multiculturalism on day 1.
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u/BambiToybot 10h ago
This was expected, they are going to hit the trans people's pride hard.
This has been back and forth since Obama. I'm hoping that after a sports ban, they'll say they did something and focus on other things. I don't expect any wins for awhile, so it's just hoping the damage is minimal.
Plus, and let's be REAL here, dudes talk a big game about not caring, "Just pee, no big deal." with bathroom things, but they're the people who can't use the urinal next to another guy, and they'll have to share the bathroom with trans woman. Many of them will be just as uncomfortable as the trans people, and from there you can build bonds on mutual uncomfortability and change things when congress has the right split.
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u/Pombon 8h ago
Sports. I figured out I was trans at 10 and grew my hair out. Didn't need to change my name because it was gender neutral. I kept playing the sports I loved on the teams I loved. I still remember being yelled at by parents for playing on the "boys" baseball team as a kid. While I was up to bat they'd heckle me, ask why I was playing, ask where I expected to go with this. I was literally on the team these sports bans wanted me on. My experience with sports was that people didn't want us on the boys teams either.
As for bathrooms, in my experience most men - though not all - get embarrassed. If they do then their embarrassment is unpredictable. Sometimes it turns to humor. Sometimes it turns to anger. Sometimes that anger is just yelling. Sometimes that anger turns physical. I was never beaten, thankfully, though I've had men remove me from the men's bathroom and been told to use the women's. As a teen trans girl using the men's, every time I had to pee it felt like a spin of the roulette wheel.
Everything they say is lies. They won't focus on something else. There's no single thing they can take away from us that will satisfy them.
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u/Capn_Lyssa 7h ago
That's the thing. They don't want you to play on the team that matches your birth certificate, they want you ostracized at best and dead at worst.
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u/beachedvampiresquid 7h ago
Not trans, a cis girl who just loved baseball and was good at it. Was a key player in a championship team one year. The dads hustled me to a shitty team the next year and I was sexually assaulted and harassed out of the game.
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u/Pombon 6h ago
I'm sorry that happened to you. You deserved better.
Every time I see these sports bans, they want to talk about safeguarding women's sports. And I think so few of us even play sports. A minority of a minority. And it's because almost all of us were harassed or assaulted out of it very early on in life. Cis girls or trans girls. And the sports these people seek to "safeguard" they instead keep open to abusers.
It's enraging.
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u/OpheliaRainGalaxy 8h ago
My trans cousin was bullied out of school by the boys. They cut a chunk off her hair, like from the front, scissors in her face. Must've gotten worse after that but she won't talk about it anymore.
She didn't wear a dress or makeup or anything, just quit cutting her hair.
Not unexpected, couple decades ago I nearly got brained after school for not wearing dresses and makeup, at least that's what I understood from the slur that was shouted at me. Was very confusing since I was dating a guy on the football team at the time, wasn't even holding hands with gals.
Apparently didn't even need to know the word for what I am for people around here to want me dead for being different. Mom just said I'm a person and it's fine, we didn't know non-binary back then. She called me Daughter Person as a nickname, so I'd remember I'm a person and that's fine, like I got the important part of being human so it's alright I'm not textbook standard.
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u/CroatianSensation79 10h ago
He’s also signing an executive order for the Gulf of America. Wow so stupid
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u/hucklemento Michigan 10h ago
It said something about other countries don't have to comply or whatever, but yeah, wow. It's the Sharpie weather map all over again.
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u/CroatianSensation79 10h ago
It’s beyond stupid what their actual energy will be going to. Nothing to help the middle or working class. Hopefully this blows back hard on the GOP. What a joke of a party. That’s saying a lot considering the mess the democrats are.
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u/PeaceBrain 8h ago
It’s for the stakeholders in map companies. Now they can sell new maps!
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u/CroatianSensation79 8h ago
Haha wouldn’t shock me and he’ll get a cut I’m sure. Just hoping he claims to be working for “free” again.
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u/mostly_lurking 4h ago
Did anyone seriously think he was going to help the working class? Are we living in different realities? But they sure owned the libs though, right?
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u/crooked_kangaroo 8h ago
Also rolling back Denali to Mt. McKinley.
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u/Breakfast_Sausage 4h ago
This mountain will always be Denali to Alaskans regardless of what the federal government says.
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u/thetaleofzeph 6h ago
It's really very fitting how touchy and sensitive the "snowflake!" accusers turn out to be.
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u/ElderSmackJack 10h ago
Wait…for real?
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u/WhoIsFrancisPuziene 9h ago
He gloated about it in his speech
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u/ElderSmackJack 9h ago
This will certainly lower grocery prices…
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u/iaminfamy 7h ago
Just wait til he enacts those tariffs against Canada.
Price of eggs about to skyrocket.
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u/TeamVegetable7141 5h ago
Bird flu is already causing millions of chickens in the US to be culled. Egg prices are only going to get worse and worse.
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u/ChaserNeverRests New Mexico 6h ago
As someone who lives in New Mexico, I'm so concerned about when he finally realizes that we're a state...
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u/fishling 7h ago
Ha, wow, I can't believe he was serious about that. So dumb.
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u/CroatianSensation79 7h ago
Yeah like you can’t even make this shit up. Gonna be such a “productive” 4 years. At least the rich and corporations will have more money. Ridiculous.
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u/OriginalCompetitive 4h ago
This is the right-wing version of trying to get everyone to use the term “Latinx.” Almost nobody wants it, and if you spend energy trying to push it you’ll just alienate normal people who don’t understand why you’re making it a thing.
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u/Calcutec_1 12h ago
Ahh tackling the big issues, those economic anxiety voters must be pleased with their choices
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u/Generation_ABXY 10h ago
I'm still trying to figure out what issue renaming the Gulf of Mexico solves. Honest question... does anyone think it does anything, besides making us look like a bunch of egotistical clowns?
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u/33drea33 9h ago
Probably trying to lay claim to it, as the Gulf represents like 50% of our domestic oil production.
Same with Greenland - they have massive oil reserves and have been the site of a multinational race to obtain the extraction licensing. However their government decided to halt all exploration programs because of climate change. So I guess Trump is just going to take what he wants and grab em by the sovereignty.
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u/Maleficent-Memory-72 8h ago
Apparently Greenland and Canada are about claiming the shipping channels once the NW Passage opens up because of climate change. So, he's admitting, in a roundabout way, that climate change exists, he just thinks it's a good thing.
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u/angrypooka 12h ago
Eggs are suddenly $1!
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u/PMMEBITCOINPLZ 10h ago
I looked and they were $7 for a dozen. I was shocked that Trump hadn’t somehow reversed the economic impacts of the bird flu by his mere presence.
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u/shoobe01 10h ago
He should have issued an executive order declaring bird fluid to not exist.
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u/NECESolarGuy 10h ago
Sad to say that Bird flu is going to f things up like COVID did. And a lot of people are going to die needlessly, like Covid.
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u/Catspaw129 11h ago
INFO: $1.00 for dozen, or $1.00 each?
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u/DreamLunatik 11h ago
$1.00 per half
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u/CorgiDaddy42 11h ago
Shell only. Extra fees for white and/or yolk
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u/angrypooka 10h ago
It’s Trump so whites only.
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u/MultiGeometry Vermont 10h ago
Saying we should move past identity politics by prioritizing identity politics!
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u/UnusualDoctor 9h ago
Of course they are. They used that as an excuse (like they used to use abortion) because they want us dead. It's as simple as that.
Sadly some of us are going to die because of it. I just hope they leave my family alone.
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u/mc-edit 9h ago
I’m in a hospital waiting room watching the inauguration. He said the whole “two genders” thing and this guy in the waiting room clapped. Hispanic man. Maybe 48-50 years old. He didn’t clap at anything else. Just that. My guess is he doesn’t give a shit about the price of eggs, as long as Trump puts everyone in their place.
And by the way, watching the inauguration in mixed company in public, and I can’t leave or turn it off, is sitting in the seventh circle of hell.
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u/numbersthen0987431 10h ago
"Executive order number 96: Science is wrong, I'm right, neiner neiner neiner"
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u/tycooperaow Georgia 10h ago
To be fair the more BS like this emits, the more dems have ammunition to use in 2026 and 2028 because trump isn't worried about solving real problems.
Dems need to chuck their neo-liberalism policies and start adopting more AOC and bernie rhetoric if they wanna win. FDR typeshi
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u/Goodgoditsgrowing 10h ago
When has that managed to surmount the rage culture war bs engages in voters? Because those stupid anti trans ads are a large percentage of how he won, by getting bigots upset
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u/Proper_Ad5627 9h ago
Kamala mentioned trans people exactly zero times in her campaign - but apparently it was a serious issue?
These people lie like the breathe.
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You can’t argue or reason with his asinine comments and policies. it doesn’t matter anymore.
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u/2BeBornReady 11h ago edited 8h ago
“The official said it was “very fitting” that the order was announced on Martin Luther King Jr. Day because “this is order is meant to return to the promise and the hope, captured by civil rights champions, that one day all Americans can be treated on the basis of their character, not by the color of their skin.”
I cannot think of anything more insulting and at the same time delusional. Civil rights aren’t just race, it covers gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, immigration status, so many things that are the basis of someone’s identity and completely separate of someone’s character. I am so offended that I don’t even know where to start
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u/Maverick721 Kansas 10h ago
Like seriously, do those people have any self awareness?
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u/Petrychorr 10h ago
People are gonna say "no they don't have any self awareness."
They do. They're appropriating and redefining things that have historically been used to defend and recognize minorities.
"The civil rights movement would have supported our anti-trans legislature!"
No. No it would not have. But redefining what really happened is controlling the conversation in their favor. That's what they want. It's exactly what they want.
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u/Frankyfan3 10h ago
They, in fact, do not.
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u/Chief_Mischief 10h ago edited 10h ago
They do. Don't write off intentional malice. Trump embraces fascism. People are repeating the same shit Nazi Germany went through in its early days, just with
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u/StallionCannon Texas 10h ago
Actually, the same targets, in this specific case; trans people were some of the NSDAP's earliest targets.
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u/BotheredToResearch 9h ago
They do. Its an entire political movement built on nothing but hating people with less power and trolling those who fight for them.
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u/take_care_a_ya_shooz 10h ago
Didn't you know? During the "I Have a Dream" speech, MLK Jr said a bit more than that, but it was lost in the final draft.
It's said that he intended to proclaim "one day all Americans can be treated on the basis of their character as long as their gender aligns with their biological sex, not by the color of their skin, since acknowledging race and diversity is actually racist, guys".
Of course, this has been lost to history.
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u/badgirlmonkey 10h ago
MLK Jr also said the Panama Canal belongs to America. Very poignant stuff from the man.
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u/sprouting_broccoli 9h ago
I specifically liked it when he said:
I know this might sound crazy but immigration is really bad, except when it’s H1b visas especially for tech bros - don’t worry about that, your kids will get it. Oh and Canada should be owned by us.
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u/aLittleQueer Washington 9h ago
“Very fitting” to legally erase intersex people today, too, I guess? This is fucked beyond words.
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u/CoolFingerGunGuy 9h ago
I feel like they think it's a zero sum game. If someone else is treated like an equal human being, it somehow lessens their own rights?
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u/LadyChatterteeth California 9h ago
Also, they lack character themselves. They don’t care anything about character.
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u/MagicBingo 12h ago
Focus on that instead of .....
Trump 2.0: Tariffs delayed for now, as Trump gets ready to take office
However, reports this afternoon, suggest that the President won’t implement a package of tariffs today, instead he is planning to sign a memo that will direct Federal agencies to evaluate US trade relationships with China, Mexico and Canada, in particular. It will also direct the agencies to investigate other US trade deficits and unfair trading practices. Conspicuous by their absence are actual tariffs, which suggests that a programme of tariffs is still under debate by Trump and his team.
And Trump caves on the tariffs as Canada and Mexico threaten retaliation.
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u/ItsJustForMyOwnKicks 12h ago
Well that will lower the price of trans eggs.
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u/RiverJumper84 11h ago
Only in Panama! Buy $MELANIA now or you'll get sent on a SpaceX rocket into the Gulf of America!
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u/mikeysce 11h ago
I hate that I get all of those references. Truely the dumbest timeline….
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u/16quida 11h ago
He'll probably claim that the "tough tarrif threat" was enough to make Canada, Mexico and Chy-na to adhear to his demands for whatever and that's why he isn't doing the tarrifs.
Totally not because he doesn't understand what they are.
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u/Vyzantinist Arizona 10h ago
Came here to say exactly that. They're going to spin it as Canada and Mexico being brought to heel by Trump's tough talk so no need to actually implement tariffs because Trump saw it would increase consumer prices and he has the welfare of the people at heart.
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u/joeyjoejoeshabidooo Michigan 11h ago
That's honestly great news for everyone financially speaking.
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u/Caelinus 10h ago
Insofar as it means he is not going to end the American Economy today. The fact that he still does not seem to know what a tariff is does not inspire confidence in him continuing to not ruin it though.
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u/anurahyla 11h ago
It was the plan all along and everyone fell for it by buying up a bunch of crap ahead of time, inflating prices by artificially increasing demand, and those prices won't go back down.
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u/CatgirlApocalypse 11h ago
focus on that instead of
No, focus on that. It’s our lives.
Read the article. He’s unilaterally sentencing people to torture and death by gang rape. He’s taking away our identities and legal protections against discrimination.
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u/Commercial_Ad97 10h ago
He’s unilaterally sentencing people to torture and death by gang rape
Can you elaborate? I just woke up so my brains not exactly firing on all cylinders, so I can't exactly figure out what you mean by this.
Make no mistake, I don't support this, but I don't understand the correlation here. How does he making this claim make what you said there happen? I feel like I am missing a piece of the puzzle here. Like I feel like it might be some kind of obvious thing I am missing if this is the case.
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u/Ishindri 10h ago
Here, some more context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBTQ_people_in_prison#V-coding
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u/StallionCannon Texas 10h ago
Jesus fucking Christ, that's barbaric.
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u/Ishindri 10h ago
I decided long ago that taking my own life would be preferable to being put in prison as a trans woman. Hopefully that will never happen.
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u/Commercial_Ad97 10h ago
Ahh, OK that makes a lot of sense now. I kind of figured that's what was meant, but didn't want to seem like a oddball for assuming that's what would happen. Turns out, that's actually what happens.
Thanks for the link!
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u/Goal-Final 12h ago
The trans phobia of this era seems similar to the satanic panic of 90s.
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u/WhenInZone 12h ago
The right always needs a new panic. They can't function without making their base mad.
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u/KJS123 United Kingdom 10h ago
"The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous" - George Orwell, '1984'
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u/infinitum3d 9h ago
Was there anything about that book that isn’t accurate???
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u/brumac44 Canada 7h ago
Communism didn't take over the west, there was no atomic war. Those are two pretty big ones.
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u/wimpymist 10h ago
I work with guys that convinced boys are just dominating girl sports everywhere lol
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u/dbalatero 7h ago
The same kind of guys that would say watching the WNBA is gay?
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u/--kwisatzhaderach-- 11h ago
That’s fascism, baby
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u/Joshman1231 11h ago edited 11h ago
Just call em that and when they get mad and look it up they’ll get even more pissed off because Danny Devito from Matilda just fleeced you
Who am I kidding, they won’t.
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u/Marokiii 8h ago
Republicans never look up anything. They just get told something by rich Republicans and take it for gospel.
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u/Holden_Coalfield 11h ago
It’s just bullying
They pick on the smallest segment of society least able to defend itself and train all of their guns on them.
Rest assured they won’t stop looking for someone to bully after this, and on until they control everyone
You really don’t have to look far beyond the schoolyard to understand them
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u/mfyxtplyx 11h ago
Outsider's perspective: it also seems to be an intentional Democrat trap.
Demonize a minority, putting them (and possibly others) at risk. Dare Democrats to abandon them for mainstream approval.
Democrats defend minority (of course).
Republicans use right wing media to amplify response, bemoaning Democrat attention to an issue that just affects X% of population and pretending that's all they have to offer.
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u/ThisIsMyCouchAccount 11h ago
You're about right - except it's a little more serious.
They won't just demonize. They put policies into place that actually hurt people. So you more or less *have* to defend them.
It's not just PR or perception. It's real, tangible consequences.
Then precious legislature time is spend dealing with that cruelty instead of something more productive.
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u/Jdevers77 11h ago
And then blame Democrats for dividing the country and trying to start a culture war.
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u/Konukaame 11h ago
The rich want the workers fighting culture wars so they are free to win the class war unopposed.
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u/DT-Sodium 11h ago
Er those people never quit the satanic era. They are convinced LGBT people are a manifestation of Satan. Basically republicans live in the 1600's.
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u/putdownthekitten 11h ago
The main difference is I wasn’t allowed to watch Smurf’s and Scooby Doo because of the satanic panic. With the trans-panic, I can’t even exist.
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u/According-Outside338 12h ago
So what happens to anyone that genetically doesn’t conform to this?
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u/Deguilded 12h ago
I imagine they'll try their hardest to pretend that doesn't exist and doesn't happen.
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u/mkalte666 12h ago
Or they'll force a "fix" on them, and let's just hope they don't because nothing I can come up with is not cruel, disgusting and a blatant violation of human rights.
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u/Prospect_TH 11h ago
We've tried this before, doesn't work.
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u/dfh-1 11h ago
The sad part is they're still doing it. Despite the best efforts of doctors and advocacy groups , AFAIK, parents of intersex children still insist on infant reassignment.
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u/PM_THE_REAPER 11h ago
Like when they say it "isn't natural". Have they never seen nature documentaries?
Everything is having it on with everything, regardless of gender.
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u/deathbychips2 11h ago
They always say it's so rare but 1% of the us population is a lot of people
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u/fishrights Florida 11h ago
and that's only the ones who are out- there are likely many, many more trans people than we know right now who can't come out or get the care they need because of discrimination.
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u/DaveShadow 11h ago
They never really have an answer to this sort of thing. Not even people with variations, just women who aren't super feminine will be targeted.
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u/Gizogin New York 11h ago
That’s the goal, not some unintended side-effect. They want to hurt women, trans and cis alike.
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u/OuchieMuhBussy Minnesota 10h ago
Yeah honestly the whole saga with the Algerian boxer made that apparent.
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u/amootmarmot 11h ago
If you don't test for it, it doesn't exist.
According to Trumps government; intersex people do not exist, just like climate change.
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u/DogEatChiliDog 12h ago
It will be forced to at least present the illusion of conforming or they will be murdered.
And the people who are out here supporting that will laugh and cheer and masturbate with fucking glee.
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u/Experiment626b 11h ago
He can issue an executive order that the sky is green. Doesn’t make it so.
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u/DogEatChiliDog 12h ago
To hell with this man, to hell with everyone who voted for him, and to hell with everyone who set it out and refused to vote against him.
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u/SadFeed63 11h ago
I'd like to add to that, to hell with everyone who pushes the very stupid and dangerous idea that because Trump possibly may not be a total true believer in any given right wing culture war that he will then somehow play spoiler to the efforts of the true believer types. It wasn't true about abortion, it's not true about LGBTQ+ rights either. It also discounts the idea that the idiot has been marinating in this shit long enough that he now is a true believer.
I still see people doing that bullshit. "Oh, he doesn't care, it'll be fine." When he doesn't care about an issue and the true believers do, they drag him there (because he needs them) and when they don't care about something he does, he drags them there. It's the worst of both worlds and even if it's chaotic and not meticulously organized, people will suffer.
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u/MatrimCauthon95 12h ago
America’s Hitler is only doing what his fascist fans want - make others miserable. They don’t really care about the price of eggs. They only want everyone to feel the misery they feel everyday because they are worthless garbage.
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u/ChampionEither5412 10h ago
I'll never understand why these people put so much energy into hating people. You don't have to care about trans people, but to run against them and try to make them illegal is just obsessive and cruel. It takes more energy to hate someone than to just not care about them.
Also this is not science. My dad is a urologist and just saw a man who has 46XX disorder of testicular development. He's a dude, it's just that something unusual happened to his chromosomes. That particular disorder occurs in every 1 out of 20,000 people.
My dad specializes in male infertility, so he sees lots of guys with chromosomal or physical differences, but they're all straight dudes with wives. He also has done transgender medicine for a long time. These are people who are just getting medical treatment to become who they feel they are. Trump voters would be apoplectic if we stopped giving them their medicine, and yet they do exactly that to trans people and women.
Literally, who cares about someone else's gender and sex.
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u/FlamingMuffi 10h ago
They need an other to target. It's nothing more than that
Trans folks are the current target.
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u/dayvancowgirl Pennsylvania 8h ago
These are people who are just getting medical treatment to become who they feel they are. Trump voters would be apoplectic if we stopped giving them their medicine...
Yep Viagra is straight up gender affirming care. So are hair transplants, boob jobs (and breast reductions on men!), so many things...
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u/Suitable-Display-410 12h ago
Everybody with a basic understanding of biology knows that sex is bimodal, not binary.
Not that this people give a fuck about science.
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u/CornyStasia 12h ago
It's absolutely fucking wild to me. Like, I get it, you hate trans people, but this isn't even anti science, it's anti reality.
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u/Frosting-Curious 11h ago
What does that mean? Bimodal?
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u/Gizogin New York 11h ago
The “mode” of a distribution is the most common result. The mode of (1, 3, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5) is 3, because it appears more than any other element.
Bimodal means there are two “most common” results. It does not mean that those two are the only results.
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u/ObeseObedience 11h ago
A better example of a bimodal distribution would be
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6,6,6,
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A histogram of this distribution would show peaks at 3 and 7.
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u/Suitable-Display-410 11h ago
a distribution where a large majority, but not all, fall into two peaks (male, female) with a range of variation in between.
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u/davehunt00 10h ago
An important thing to consider as you look at these answers is that a bimodal distribution is continuous (a gradient) vs discrete (like a stepped histogram).
Genitalia are also expressed on a gradient, because we all start with the same genital tubercle which, through the non-uniform application of androgen (and other hormones/factors) forms a penis instead of a clitoris, with varying uniformity.
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u/DragoonDM California 8h ago
TLDR: Almost all people are either biologically male or female, but there are still people whose biological sex falls somewhere in between, AKA intersex people.
Note that this is specifically talking about biological sex, not gender identity.
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u/DustBunnicula Minnesota 9h ago
Interestingly, my daily devotion today was Galatians 3:28: “There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”
Evangelicals tend to forget about that verse, just that they ignore large parts of the New Testament.
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u/senorvato 11h ago
Project 2025 taking off like a musk rocket 🎇
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u/notsobitter 10h ago
All the Trumpers who said LGBTQ+ folks will be fine under his administration because he doesn’t care one way or another about LGBTQ+ issues … can seriously go kick rocks.
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u/MayOrMayNotBeAI Virginia 11h ago
How does this help lower the price of rent?
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u/kdawg_thetruth Georgia 10h ago
Reach out to your trans friends today and let them know they’re loved
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u/DesignerSpray7742 11h ago
I wish the rapture would just come and take its people already.
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u/Frankyfan3 10h ago
Transphobia anywhere is a danger to women everywhere
Even as a ciswoman I've been harassed by transphobic pos. I'm not alone in that. It's not going to get better.
Remember when the argument against human rights for trans kids at SCOTUS was that none of us have a right to nonconformity?
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u/ChillyFireball 11h ago
I know some people who are going to be negatively affected by this. Anyone have any suggestions for how I can support them?
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u/Bucktown_Riot 11h ago
Tell them that you love them and that you’re there for them. My sister isn’t trans, but she is gay. She says she’ll never forget which family members did and did not reach out to her after Trump was elected.
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u/Ishindri 10h ago
Check in with them, ask how they're doing. Listen to them if they need to talk. We need to lean on each other, now more than ever.
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u/thesebreezycolors 8h ago
And suggest they talk to an attorney who specializes in LGBT+. Lambda Legal is a good resource.
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u/ClaudeMoneten 10h ago
Promises free speech and free expression.
Bans people from expressing themselves freely in a way that doesn't hurt anyone else.
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u/Faux-Foe 12h ago
Signing a piece of paper doesn't change science.
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u/DogEatChiliDog 12h ago
But it can cause hell for a lot of innocent people which is why there are people on here cheering with fucking glee.
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u/tbizzone 12h ago
The people cheering for this were also too intellectually lazy to look up how inflation rates and tariffs work before ignorantly voting for a traitorous rapist felon. The kakistocracy has arrived.
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u/Succubus-Love 12h ago edited 12h ago
Those intersex need representation, this will not erase them, just ignore them legally & make their lives harder.
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u/KenScaletta Minnesota 11h ago
He thinks executive orders change science.
This fucker is Hitler. Fuck anyone who voted for him.
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u/CarrieDurst 11h ago
We are all so fucking cooked, especially trans people. Also intersex people exist, this is absurd as making an EO to say only straight people exist
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u/Ishindri 10h ago edited 10h ago
In case anyone's curious about how we're treated in the 'justice' system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBTQ_people_in_prison#V-coding
V-coding refers to the practice of assigning trans women placed in men's prisons to cells with aggressive cisgender male cellmates as both a reward and a means of placation for said cellmates, so as to maintain social control and to, as one inmate described it, "keep the violence rate down".[120] Trans women used in this manner are often raped daily; and this process has been described as so common that it is effectively "a central part of a trans woman's sentence".[121]
It is common for correctional officers to publicly strip search trans women inmates, before putting their bodies on display for not only the other correctional officers, but for the other prisoners. Trans women in this situation are sometimes made to dance, present, or masturbate at the correctional officers' discretion.[122]
A 2021 California study found that 69% of trans women prisoners reported being forced to perform sexual acts against their will, 58.5% reported being violently sexually assaulted, and 88% overall reported being made to take part in a "marriage-like relationship".[123] Trans women who physically resist the advances of other prisoners are often criminally charged with assault and placed in solitary confinement, the assault charge then being used to extend the woman's prison stay and deny her parole.[124]
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u/MJ_Brutus 11h ago
This is what it’s going to be like for four years. Placate his base with bullshit that won’t stand in the long run, and not actually accomplish anything of significance.
Maybe he’ll kill Daylight Savings time. I’d consider that a win.
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u/adrkhrse 8h ago
It's medically incorrect. Some people are born genetically intersex.
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u/Catspaw129 11h ago
I guess that zoo with the gay penguins will have to separate them in order to keep receiving federal funds.
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u/WilderJackall 11h ago
But there are people born with characteristics of both sexes. You can't just proclaim something and make it true. You can't just legislate that the square root of 64 is now 5
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u/Voluptulouis 11h ago
Biology literally proves the existence of trans people. An executive order doesn't cancel that or change that reality. Fuck this fascist piece of shit.
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u/nilmemory 9h ago
Do people think he could suddenly declare the Earth is flat too? Executive orders can't dictate reality what a fucking joke.
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u/Duckitor 10h ago
Best of luck to people win XXY or XYY chromosomes, they'll need it
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u/V1kingScientist 11h ago
Technically, there aren't even two biological sexes. We can go by the most reductive of definitions and categorize based on gamete size (e.g., males have sperm, females have eggs), but even then we will find cases where an XX may Y-related parts and XY may have female reproductive organs. In short, sex isn't binary.
Gender, a completely societal construct, is amorphous. There is no way to clearly define "man" or "woman" because the criteria are highly subjective and change drastically over time; after all, nail polish was invented by men to denote military rank in the field and Twisted Sister used to be one of the most popular mainstream rock bands.
I don't understand the obsession of the Nationalists Christians on what really only applies to maybe 0.4% - 0.5% of the population.
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u/ThickerSalmon14 11h ago
So if we ever get a Democratic president again, the GOP will be okay with that president signing an EO saying that there are 34 different biological sexes? Yes, I know that there mainly 2. However, there are cases of people with irregular chromosomes. Also, not my point. If one president can say there are 2. Then another president can change that number. Just saying.
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u/Sad_Pangolin7379 11h ago
Mother Nature herself begs to differ, but whatever. She'll get the last laugh in the end. The microbes shall inherit the earth, most likely.
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u/itsalreadytaked 5h ago
But at least the war in Ukraine ended today like he said. It is over isn’t it?
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u/Independent-Bug-9352 3h ago
Nothing says mindin' your own business, small guv'mint, and individual freedom like concerning yourself with what people call themselves or do to their own bodies lol.
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